Serge Gainsbourg – Histoire De Melody Nelson
140,00 lei
Label: Mercury – 537 183-7, Mercury Music Group – 537 183-7, Universal Music France – 537 183-7
Series: Back To Black
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo, 180g
Country: France
Released: 2016
Genre: Rock, Funk / Soul
Style: Funk, Psychedelic
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Histoire de Melody Nelson is a 1971 concept album by French songwriter Serge Gainsbourg. Produced by Jean-Claude Desmarty, the album was released on March 24, 1971 through Philips Records. Its narrative follows an illicit romance which develops between the middle-aged narrator and 15-year-old girl Melody Nelson.
Histoire de Melody Nelson is considered by many critics and fans to be Gainsbourg’s most influential and accomplished work, as well as one of the greatest French-language albums in popular music.
At just under twenty-eight minutes, the short running time and the stylistic consistency and similarity throughout the album give it qualities more in line with an EP or an extended musical piece with a number of movements. Histoire de Melody Nelson’s mix of freewheeling guitar, funk-style bass guitar, near-spoken word vocal delivery, and lush, deep orchestrated string and choral arrangements by Jean-Claude Vannier, who composed almost all the music in collaboration with Gainsbourg for the album, have proven to be highly influential amongst later francophone and anglophone musical performers.
The cover photograph was shot by Tony Frank. In it, Melody is portrayed by Gainsbourg’s partner, Jane Birkin, wearing a red wig, and with her jeans rolled down slightly to accommodate her early stage of pregnancy.
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